Military & Wartime Buildings

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Castles, Keeps & Towers

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  Originally a folly built in 1769, Castle Dinton in Buckinghamshire was a GradeII* ruin till converted by Spanish Architect Fernandez. It appeared on Grand Designs in 2018.

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  8.2.5 Castle House, Bridgewater 1851 - one of the earliest surviving examples of the use of Victorian prefabricated concrete and constructional post-tensioning.

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  Martello Towers We’re Napoleonic era, sea-facing tower forts built around the coast of Great Britain and Ireland. At least twenty have been converted to homes.

Temporary Huts

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  8.2.1 A Nissen Hut based house at Ashdown Camp, Evesham

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  8.2.2 A Quonset Hut based house in Australia

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Bunkers

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  A wartime bunker in Holland converted by architect B-ILD into a holiday home.

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  Hilldegarden, a converted bunker and air raid installation in Hamburg Germany

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  Anstruther Nuclear Bunker made to look like a farmhouse for security.

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  Swiss military bunker and anti-aircraft site designed to look like an alpine chalet.

Bomb Shelters

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  8.2.4 A converted RAF bomb observation shelter turned into a home at Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire

Sea Forts

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  Thorne Island, a Grade II listed Napoleonic sea fort off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, recently converted into a home.

Other Military Conversions

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  Royal Navy Wireless Listening Station, Stockton-on-Tees, now converted into a house.

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  The Control Tower, Little Walden Airfield, Hadstock, Essex. A Grade II Listed conversin of a wartime airfield.

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  Former radar station at Balado Bridge, Kinross-shire, Scotland.

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